• First Step: An Elementary Reader for Modern Chinese (The Princeton Language Program: Modern Chinese)

    First Step is an elementary Chinese textbook for students with no previous background in the language. Focusing on the basics of modern Chinese phonetics and grammatical structure, the book uses everyday topics to help students establish a solid foundation in the Chinese language.The textbook, which includes color illustrations, contains thirty lessons, each of which can be covered in a week's worth of classes. Each lesson features a lively dialogue or a short essay, representing a real-life situation, which is then followed by vocabulary lists and grammar notes. Explanatory notes on Chinese c... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0691154201
    • ASIN: 0691154201
    • ISBN: 0691154201
    • Manufacturer: Princeton University Press

  • World Class: One Mother's Journey Halfway Around the Globe in Search of the Best Education for Her Children

    An eye-opening firsthand exploration of why Asian students are outpacing their American counterparts, and how to help our children excel in today’s competitive world.When Teru Clavel had young children, the oldest barely two, she watched as her friends and fellow parents vied to secure a spot in the right New York City preschools. Following a gut feeling that a truly world-class education involves more than the privilege and ennui of elite private schools, Teru and her family moved to Asia, embarking on a ten-year-long journey through the public schools of Hong Kong, Shanghai, and Tokyo. Dur... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B07P56J7Y5
    • ASIN: B07P56J7Y5
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

  • 10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests Volume VI: (PrepTests 72-81)

    For pure practice at an unbelievable price, you can't beat the 10 Actual series. Each book includes: 10 previously administered LSATs, an answer key for each test, a writing sample for each test,score-conversion tables, and sample Comparative Reading questions and explanations.

    • ASIN: 0998339784
    • ASIN: 0998339784
    • ISBN: 0998339784
    • Manufacturer: Law School Admission Council

  • The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization (Routledge Handbooks in Applied Linguistics)

    The Routledge Handbook of Language Revitalization is the first comprehensive overview of the language revitalization movement, from the Arctic to the Amazon and across continents. Featuring 47 contributions from a global range of top scholars in the field, the handbook is divided into two parts, the first of which expands on language revitalization issues of theory and practice while the second covers regional perspectives in an effort to globalize and decolonize the field. The collection examines critical issues in language revitalization, including: language rights, language and well-being,... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1138674494
    • ASIN: 1138674494
    • ISBN: 9781138674493
    • Manufacturer: Routledge

  • AP U.S. & Comparative Government & Politics (REA) - The Best Test Prep for the A: 8th Edition (Advanced Placement (AP) Test Preparation)

    A NEWER EDITION OF THIS TITLE IS AVAILABLE.  SEE ISBN:  978-0-7386-0267-7  REA … Real review, Real practice, Real results. Get the college credits you deserve. AP U.S. & COMPARATIVE GOVERNMENT & POLITICS 8th Edition Completely aligned with today’s AP exam Are you prepared to excel on the AP exam?  * Set up a study schedule by following our results-driven timeline* Take the first practice test to discover what you know and what you   should know* Use REA's advice to ready yourself for proper study and success Practice for real* Create the closest experience to test-day conditions ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0738600466
    • ASIN: 0738600466
    • ISBN: 0738600466
    • Brand: Brand: Research Education Association
    • Manufacturer: Research & Education Association

  • Hard Questions on Global Educational Change: Policies, Practices, and the Future of Education

    This new book, from internationally renowned education scholar Pasi Sahlberg and his colleagues, focuses on some of the most controversial issues in contemporary education reform around the world. The authors devote a chapter to each of these “hard questions”: Does parental choice improve education systems? Is there a future for teacher unions? What is the right answer to the standardized testing question? Can schools prepare children for the 21st-century workplace? Will technology save schools? Can anyone be a teacher? Should higher education be for the public good? What knowledge and sk... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0807758183
    • ASIN: 0807758183
    • ISBN: 0807758183
    • Brand: Teachers College Press
    • Manufacturer: Teachers College Press

  • Cracking the AP World History Exam, 2017 Edition: Proven Techniques to Help You Score a 5 (College Test Preparation)

    EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO SCORE A PERFECT 5 ON THE NEW 2017 EXAM!Equip yourself to ace the NEW AP World History Exam with The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide—including thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect portal online, and 2 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations. The AP World History course and exam have changed! Created to align with the new exam content, and written by the experts at The Princeton Review, Cracking the AP World History Exam arms you to take on the test with:Techniques That Actu... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 110192005X
    • ASIN: 110192005X
    • ISBN: 9781101920053
    • Brand: Princeton Review
    • Manufacturer: Princeton Review

  • More Than Allegory: On Religious Myth, Truth And Belief

    This book is a three-part journey into the rabbit hole we call the nature of reality. Its ultimate destination is a plausible, living validation of transcendence. Each of its three parts is like a turn of a spiral, exploring recurring ideas through the prisms of religious myth, truth and belief, respectively. With each turn, the book seeks to convey a more nuanced and complete understanding of the many facets of transcendence. Part I puts forward the controversial notion that many religious myths are actually true; and not just allegorically so. Part II argues that our own inner storytelling p... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01D27CBEU
    • ASIN: B01D27CBEU
    • Manufacturer: Iff Books

  • The Welfare of Nations

    What damage is being done by failing welfare states? What lessons can be learned from the best welfare states? And—is it too late to stop welfare states from permanently diminishing the lives and liberties of people around the world? Traveling around the globe, James Bartholomew examines welfare models, searching for the best education, health care, and support services in 11 vastly different countries; illuminating the advantages and disadvantages of other nations' welfare states; and delving into crucial issues such as literacy, poverty, and inequality. This is a hard-hitting and provocati... [Read More]

    • ASIN: B01N3SSQ1W
    • ASIN: B01N3SSQ1W
    • Manufacturer: Cato Institute

  • Wheelock's Latin 7th Edition (The Wheelock's Latin Series)

    For nearly sixty years, Wheelock's Latin has remained the optimus liber of beginning Latin textbooks. When Professor Frederic M. Wheelock's Latin first appeared in 1956, the reviews extolled its thoroughness, organization, and conciseness; one reviewer predicted that the book "might well become the standard text" for introducing students to elementary Latin. Now, nearly six decades later, that prediction has certainly proved accurate. This new edition of Wheelock's Latin has all of the features, many of them improved and expanded, that have made it the bestselling single-volume beginning ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0061997226
    • ASIN: 0061997226
    • ISBN: 0061997226
    • Brand: Collins Reference
    • Manufacturer: Collins Reference

  • McGraw-Hill Education ACT 2017 edition

    The essential go-to study guide from the most trusted name in education―now revised and updated with 6 full-length practice tests for 2017 If you’re planning to take the ACT’s four achievement tests―English, reading, math, and science―this comprehensive guide from the experts at McGraw-Hill Education provides a specific ACT-prep program for all four exams so you can be at your test-ready best. The simple, proven techniques and strategies in this book will help you study more efficiently, avoid common traps, and raise your scores across the board―even on the optional writing test.�... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1259642321
    • ASIN: 1259642321
    • ISBN: 1259642321
    • Brand: Dulan Steven W
    • Manufacturer: McGraw-Hill Education

  • The Spirituality of Imperfection: Storytelling and the Search for Meaning

    I Am Not Perfect is a simple statement of profound truth, the first step toward  understanding the human condition, for to deny your essential imperfection is to deny yourself and your own humanity. The spirituality of imperfection, steeped in the rich traditions of the Hebrew prophets and Greek thinkers, Buddhist sages and Christian disciples, is a message as timeless as it is  timely. This insightful work draws on the wisdom stories of the ages to provide an extraordinary wellspring of hope and inspiration to anyone thirsting for spiritual growth and guidance in these troubled times.Who ... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 0553371320
    • ASIN: 0553371320
    • ISBN: 9780553371321
    • Brand: Bantam Books
    • Manufacturer: Bantam

  • Cracking the AP World History Exam 2017, Premium Edition (College Test Preparation)

    PREMIUM PRACTICE FOR A PERFECT 5! Equip yourself to ace the NEW 2017 AP World History Exam with this Premium version of The Princeton Review's comprehensive study guide. The AP World History course and exam have changed! Arm yourself to take on the new test with our thorough content reviews, targeted strategies for every question type, access to our AP Connect portal online, and 5 full-length practice tests with complete answer explanations!Everything You Need to Know to Help Achieve a High Score.• Comprehensive content review for all test topics• Up-to-date information on the new 2... [Read More]

    • ASIN: 1101920041
    • ASIN: 1101920041
    • ISBN: 1101920041
    • Brand: Princeton Review
    • Manufacturer: Princeton Review

  • Cracking the Ap World History Exam 2015 (College Test Preparation)

    Language:English.Cracking the AP World History Exam

    • ASIN: 080412518X
    • ASIN: 080412518X
    • ISBN: 080412518X
    • Manufacturer: Princeton Review

  • The Mind Stealers: Psychosurgery and Mind Control

    Examines the various techniques, and their practitioners, of controlling people's minds and behavior, describing actual and theoretical medical and political uses of drugs, conditioning, electroshock, ultrasound, surgery, and other techniques

    • ASIN: 0395263816
    • ASIN: 0395263816
    • ISBN: 0395263816
    • Manufacturer: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

  • Best Practices to Address Community Gang Problems: OJJDP's Comprehensive Gang Model - Intervention Teams, Outreach Workers, Law Enforcement, Suppression, Social Control, Reentry Programs - eBook

    Since its inception, the Office of Juvenile Justice and Juvenile Delinquency Prevention (OJJDP) has initiated and supported a broad range of research, demonstration, evaluation, and training and technical assistance initiatives to prevent and reduce gang

    • UPC: 132439268

  • The Tyranny of Guilt : An Essay on Western Masochism

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    • UPC: 19405220
    • Rating: 4.0

  • Economics for the Common Good

    Translation of: Economie du bien

    • UPC: 55259516

  • The Peerless Reciter : Or Popular Program Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors (1894)

    The Peerless Reciter: Or Popular Program Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors (1894) Height : 1.10 In Length : 6.00 In Width : 9.02 In Weight : 1.59

    • UPC: 963669271

  • The Peerless Reciter : Or Popular Program Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors (1894)

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  • The Practice of Everyday Life

    In this incisive book, Michel de Certeau considers the uses to which social representation and modes of social behavior are put by individuals and groups, describing the tactics available to the common man for reclaiming

    • UPC: 16548447
    • Rating: 2.0

  • Perpetual Euphoria : On the Duty to Be Happy

    Happiness today is not just a possibility or an option but a requirement and a duty. To fail to be happy is to fail utterly. Happiness has become a religion--one whose smiley-faced god looks down

    • UPC: 14144455
    • Rating: 4.0

  • The Best of the Achaeans : Concepts of the Hero in Archaic Greek Poetry

    Despite widespread interest in the Greek hero as a cult figure, little was written about the relationship between the cult practices and the portrayals of the hero in poetry. The first edition of The Best

    • UPC: 27547604

  • The Fanaticism of the Apocalypse : Save the Earth, Punish Human Beings

    First published in French as Le fanaticisme de l'apocalypse, Editions Grasset & Fasquelle,

    • UPC: 38187665

  • The Peerless Reciter : Or Popular Program Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors (1894)

    The Peerless Reciter: Or Popular Program Containing the Choicest Recitations and Readings from the Best Authors

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  • Leanne Simpson’s Public Lecture: “As We Have Always Done”

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